If you decide to pursue something from an unhealthy place, like greed, you may indeed get it in spite of the negative intention, however it is much less likely to last, and much less likely to give you the underlying satisfaction (ie beyond the ego satisfaction) that you are really looking for.

When you come from a healthy place, you are engaging more healthy parts of your brain. The more practiced you get at engaging healthy thoughts, the more likely you are to recognize healthy opportunities for healthy decisions (your brain is ‘tuned to health’ because when you engage a part of the brain, you create metabolic activity—ie electrical activity—and where there is more electrical activity, the brain creates more neural connections that can receive more healthy impulses, therefore making it more likely to choose the positive over the negative—to see a block in traffic as a chance to relax with music, rather than to ruminate on it as a ‘traffic jam’); and the consequences of these healthy decisions are much more likely to be what you would call ‘positive.’ You will find that it becomes ‘easier’ to see the glass as half-full, so you are more likely to be grateful for the water you DO have (vs the 1/2 that you don’t have), and therefore more likely to drink it when you need it, rather than forgetting the water that’s there because you are busy worrying about where the rest of the water is (thereby staying thirsty even though there’s a perfectly good 1/2 glass of water right in front of you). I may come back to this. It’s a bit of a language knot, but it really does not need to be. If you get it, feel free to share your understanding of it here